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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

By: Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger and Se Yan
Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in 1910,... View Details
Keywords: History; Middle School Education; Data and Data Sets; Residency; Integration; Perspective; Surveys; Geographic Location; Welfare or Wellbeing; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development; China; India; Brazil; Russia
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  • 29 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?

The United States housing market is no longer the boat anchor dragging down economic growth. Data from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show that average home prices in an assortment of American... View Details
Keywords: Construction; Real Estate
  • 13 Dec 2018
  • Blog Post

Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

ideas and solutions.   We have three core goals: catalyze and refine faculty research ideas, educate MBAs on the value of natural resources and the opportunities for innovation and investment, and inform and... View Details
  • February 2017 (Revised December 2018)
  • Case

From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)

By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran
In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “start-up nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Israel
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  • 07 Mar 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-offs

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein, Martin Peitz, and Tommaso Valletti; Media & Broadcasting; Technology; Telecommunications
  • 04 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives

programming and communications. The goal is to shift systems and cultures informed by centuries of racial injustice, an effort which will require sustained collective action... View Details
  • September 2011
  • Article

What Drives Innovation?

By: Tom Nicholas
The idea that innovation drives economic growth is incontrovertible, but the factors that, in turn, drive innovation are not fully understood. This paper surveys the recent literature, focusing on three main drivers: intellectual property rights institutions, the... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Economic Growth
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Inequality and Decision Making: Imagining a New Line of Inquiry

By: David Moss, Anant Thaker and Howard Rudnick
The substantial increase in inequality in the United States over the past three decades has provoked considerable debate, with some analysts characterizing rising inequality as among the greatest threats facing the nation and others dismissing it as little more than a... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Income; Decision Making; Government and Politics; Economics; United States
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  • Web

The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral... View Details
  • June 1993
  • Case

General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (A) and (B) (Abridged)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Katherine N. Seger
Describes the largest information systems outsourcing agreement in the industry from the perspectives of both companies involved in the deal. View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Transition; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Business Strategy; Information Technology
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  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

In some ways it doesn't seem that long ago that our class began its studies at Soldiers Field, but a look back at the first Harbus edition in the fall of 1972 seems to reveal another century. King of Hearts... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

said: Julie Battilana: Put people and the planet at economy's core My hope is that President Biden and his team will help all of us rebuild strong democratic foundations, and place human beings and the planet back at the core View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 2011
  • Chapter

An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s

By: Diego A. Comin
Why was the 1990s a lost decade for Japan? How is it possible that the Japanese economy stagnated for a decade if none of the shocks that arguably hit the economy seemed to have persisted for much more than three years or so? In this paper I show that the endogenous... View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Technology Adoption; Japan
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  • 04 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

Hi all, my name is Rhea! I was lucky enough to work for the National Park Service this summer as a business management intern with the Submerged Resources Center (SRC). The SRC is the NPS national dive program, responsible for documentation, research, and maintenance... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • August 2020
  • Article

A History of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the United States: Political Appeal and Public Health Efficacy

By: A Jay Holmgren, Alyssa Botelho and Allan M Brandt
Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) have become a widely embraced policy to address the US opioid crisis. Despite mixed scientific evidence on their effectiveness at improving health and reducing overdose deaths, 49 states and Washington, DC have adopted... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Information Technology; Programs; Technology Adoption; History; Government and Politics; Policy; United States
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    Joshua Lev Krieger

    Josh Krieger is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit.  Josh’s research focuses on R&D strategy and the economics of innovation.  His work examines project selection, R&D competition, and... View Details

    • 03 May 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

    turns out that the people who created the internet, primarily White men, didn’t classify or tag themselves as anything. This means that when you ask the AI system – which uses information up to the year... View Details
    Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
    • 07 Sep 2016
    • What Do You Think?

    How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

    networks as we know them, with their devices, will cease to exist within the next decade. These bit based clod machines will yield to a kind of biologic environment, where the systems are secondary to the... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • June 2010
    • Teaching Note

    Sheikh Mohammed and the Making of "Dubai, Inc." (TN)

    By: Anthony Mayo and Johnathan Cromwell
    Teaching Note for 410063. View Details
    Keywords: Balance and Stability; Growth and Development; Identity; Government and Politics; Infrastructure; Financial Crisis; Labor; Economic Systems; Culture; Managerial Roles; Local Range; Dubai
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    • 01 Dec 2020
    • Blog Post

    Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

    ideas. For the projects I worked, I had to make lots of Excel models to clearly distill complex information. I applied the same principals I used as a programmer to make the models clean and succinct so that the View Details
    Keywords: All Industries